Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia

Storey, William Kelleher

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“…While their involvement in the arms trade may seem surprising from a modern perspective, the sale of firearms carried far less moral and legal restrictions in the early nineteenth century. Britain introduced a gun licence system in 1870, and only then as a revenue gathering measure (Satia, 2018). Further efforts to control British citizens' access to arms in the 1890s resulted in a 1903 act that restricted the public sale of pistols, but only to children and alcoholics.…”

Section: The Firearms Trade In the British Empire And New South Walesmentioning

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“…Further efforts to control British citizens' access to arms in the 1890s resulted in a 1903 act that restricted the public sale of pistols, but only to children and alcoholics. As noted by Priya Satia, the involvement of firearms in Britain's wars with France between 1793 and 1815 had worsened the perception of firearms by the public but the centrality of war to the British state and industry ensured that firearms manufacturing and exportation remained substantial for the entire nineteenth century (Satia, 2018). Firearms sales to indigenous peoples tended only to be restricted where there were British settler populations to be considered, as occurred in New Zealand in the 1840s.…”

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“…In his 1999 article on the impact of firearms militarily on Māori and Pacific warfare, Paul D'Arcy postulates a connection between an arms trade in the Pacific and the British small arms industry. Expanding upon this connection, this article embeds New South Wales and New Zealand into what Priya Satia has termed “the empire of guns” (Satia, 2018 ) . Satia builds upon earlier work discussing the military revolution in Europe by Geoffrey Palmer, and the military‐fiscal state first posited by John Brewer (Palmer, 1988 ) .…”

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“…Brewer asserts that the British state in the eighteenth and nineteenth century greatly increased taxation and borrowing to facilitate its various wars, and that its expenditure at the time significantly dwarfed the private sector (Brewer, 1988). Satia argues that the connection between state, the military, and industry was the driving mechanism behind the industrial revolution in Britain (Satia, 2018 ) . Small arms such as muskets were a substantial part of this, and for much of the nineteenth century Britain was the world's largest manufacturer of firearms (Chew, 2012 ) .…”

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Musket War and Musket trade: The New South Wales to New Zealand firearms trade, 1829–1840

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The intertribal Musket wars that spread throughout Māori society in the 1820s and 1830s have received much attention from historians. This is also true of the history of trade between New South Wales and New Zealand occurring at the same time. However, at present, the link between these two phenomena remains poorly established. This article draws on the primary material available about the trans‐Tasman arms trade from a relatively untapped source, Sydney newspapers, revealing the surprising extent of this commerce and the fact that firearms imports peaked in the early 1830s. This information necessarily requires revision of our understanding of the Musket wars themselves.

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“…promote the development of new technologies, particularly those of military importance (Khan 2015;Satia 2018).…”

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The Battle Over Patents: History and the Politics of Innovation

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2021

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In search of an empirical foundation: Firearms trade and Pacific history

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2024

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While the importance of economic relationships and structures to the functioning of the Empire has received considerable attention for other regions, the Pacific has only begun to be more fully integrated into these discourses. This article explores how histories of maritime trade might take advantage of recent innovations in digitised sources to rectify this exclusion. The firearms trade is the key focus, as this item was almost a universal trade good for much of the nineteenth century Pacific. Given that these weapons were both a complex industrial product and also often attributed to devastating social impacts, they offer unique potential both for indicating the global nature of nineteenth century Pacific trade, and for querying the role of Europeans in impacting indigenous island populations. The use of data provided by careful cross referencing of traditional primary material with large digital archives such as the Australian National Library's TROVE database offers the potential to lift such discussion above supposition and assumption, providing valuable contributions for many regional histories in the Pacific and beyond.

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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia

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Musket War and Musket trade: The New South Wales to New Zealand firearms trade, 1829–1840

Musket War and Musket trade: The New South Wales to New Zealand firearms trade, 1829–1840

The Battle Over Patents: History and the Politics of Innovation

In search of an empirical foundation: Firearms trade and Pacific history

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